TY - GEN
T1 - Performance evaluation of WLAN under impulsive electromagnetic interference in substation
AU - Zhou, Zhenyu
AU - Wu, Jun
AU - Tariq, Muhammad
AU - Liu, Zhiheng
AU - Sato, Takuro
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Wireless communication technologies bring numerous benefits for smart grid applications including lower cost, more flexibility, easier installation, etc. In this paper, the performance of wireless local area network (WLAN) under impulse electromagnetic interference (EMI) in a substation is evaluated. Simulation results have demonstrated that the impulsive EMI causes more severe degradations compared with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), especially when the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) is high. Although multiple-antenna based diversity schemes achieve better performance than the single-antenna scheme, the diversity gain is not sufficient to compensate for the performance loss caused by the impulsive EMI. Therefore, how to mitigate the impulsive EMI is essential for deploying WLAN systems in a substation. This paper also summarized conventional interference mitigation techniques, and their adaptability to the impulsive EMI. The analysis provides an insight to future research.
AB - Wireless communication technologies bring numerous benefits for smart grid applications including lower cost, more flexibility, easier installation, etc. In this paper, the performance of wireless local area network (WLAN) under impulse electromagnetic interference (EMI) in a substation is evaluated. Simulation results have demonstrated that the impulsive EMI causes more severe degradations compared with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), especially when the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) is high. Although multiple-antenna based diversity schemes achieve better performance than the single-antenna scheme, the diversity gain is not sufficient to compensate for the performance loss caused by the impulsive EMI. Therefore, how to mitigate the impulsive EMI is essential for deploying WLAN systems in a substation. This paper also summarized conventional interference mitigation techniques, and their adaptability to the impulsive EMI. The analysis provides an insight to future research.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICTC.2013.6675331
DO - 10.1109/ICTC.2013.6675331
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84899431710
SN - 9781479906987
T3 - International Conference on ICT Convergence
SP - 171
EP - 176
BT - 2013 International Conference on ICT Convergence
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2013
Y2 - 14 October 2013 through 16 October 2013
ER -